giraffe. seismic exhibits exacted in north korea sponsors fears the reclusive states fulfilled its threats to conduct a third a nuclear test. also this hour the politics of growing in the paper towel experts question the look like a sea of outgoing but i'd agree sixteen stymied sex abuse scandal is plaguing the counsellor change what. is beautiful says repel yet another target on the president paris in cairo with tear gas and water cannons as a self-styled on a case crude and murders as a key player in and to regime street protests. and as a run hold a new round of talks with atomic inspects is report on how

a lack of basic medicine due to sanctions has made lives in the country hanging by a thread. international news live for moscow this is all she was me hello and welcome to the program and first of all breaking news story and unnamed you on security council diplomat says north korea has carried out a nuclear test this comes after south korean confirmed reports about four point nine magnitude tremor in the communist country which saw also was also not true as quake. had been threatening to carry out a nuclear test for the last few weeks and that's despite the country being banned from any such activities by the one. so north korea is already under

a set of international sanctions the country had previously carried alice to nuclear test and is believed a small stockpile of nuclear weapons south korea has now called find a mattress amazing on the fly security council later on tuesday and that journalist eric margolis says pyongyang is simply lashing back at military pressure on its border. with korea always react very strongly to what it calls provocations with the u.s. either sends more forces there or particularly every year the u.s. and south korea hold joint military exercises which are clearly old war games and that attacking north korea it's very important drawers grid to conduct another underground test if it wants to have a credible nuclear deterrent force and that its objective if you don't test

people will believe that you actually have a nuclear warhead that you can stand there get a lot of question about north korea's previous nuclear tests claims that they have fizzled they had been pretty useful explosive power so this is the obvious course for north korea once it has perhaps four missiles that can deliver a light weight worry that north korea will will be able to proclaim that it can defend itself and it will feel more secure and of course will be bringing you more on this developing story as we get it and you can also for the latest at our web site. now a wave of shock has shaken the counseling world after pope benedict announced he will step down from office at the end of the month in the first papal abdication insame cerys the development followed a series of allegations about the point of trying to wash up sex abuse scandals

plaguing the catholic church across the globe people all over now. well it was described by one cardinal as a lightning bolt from a clear blue sky it certainly caught some of benedict's most senior advisers on the hope his spokes person said that it had been left frankly flabbergasted by the news that the pope will be stepping down at the end of the month now benedict is eighty five years old obviously not a young man but the cardinals knew that when they elected him and he was supposed to be there for a lot longer than this i think they would have thought it's not unprecedented but it's not really done that often in fact the last time a pope stepped down was six hundred years ago it's certainly not been an easy ride it's not been the longest papacy just under eight years but in that time the certainly being plenty of drama no nice includes one of the one of the reasons that

benedict said that he has to step down as he thought his age made him physically and in some cases mentally unable to deal with the everyday life of being the pope in the modern world one of the series of scandals that we've seen involve the so-called vatileaks similar to wiki leaks a series of documents that were distributed online but which well apparently showed a c.v. a series of shady dealings done by the vatican this type of thing of course not something your average eighty five year old has to deal with but they include some quite serious allegations including the fact that the vatican colluded with silvio berlusconi's government in italy to try and get pressure taken off the church of rome for paying taxes on properties which it own and there's also a list that was published of well less than savory clients for the fatah can bank which included some people alleged to be sicilian mafia bosses and of course one of

the major scandals that is will be remembered for benedict's papacy concerns child abuse now in his previous. this job before he became pope he was essentially regarded as the john paul of seconds papal bull dog he was the defender of the doctrine of fair for faith and not role he's. covering up sexual abuse scandals all around the world but also here in germany in fact in recent times there's been further controversy over this as the church here in germany canceled an investigation into child abuses that range but to the nineteen forty since that investigation apparently according to the man who was conducting it because they weren't happy with what would be made public so there's certainly been controversy and it will be something that's picked over for a long time to come after benedict steps down at the end of this month and barbara

doris of child abuse campaign it sounds the outgoing pope has failed to solve the core problems within the catholic church. we believe that he other words he said there was filth in the priesthood he apologized to the victims but he took no action he didn't discipline a single church official for hiding enabling shielding to predators or you know moving them from country to country from diocese to diocese so until he does that nothing has changed and we believe the words were just empty empty promises if the people be protected these predators are promoting it like cardinal law was in boston the scandal was huge and yet cardinal law managed to land in in the vatican on the most powerful committees that exist within the vatican so to the message he rebuilt he sent was if you are unable shield and protected creditors you will be rewarded and we don't feel that's the right message we feel that he should be taking action we have

a bishop in the united states that was convicted of child endangerment and is still being allowed to run a diocese what kind of a message is that to send to the world i would expect more of the same since those that enable and shield and protect continue to be promoted to continue to be given the most powerful positions within the vatican the message is clear if you follow the company line if you keep this secret if you put the reputation of the church above this of the children then you will be promoted what a terrible message to send many people no longer trust church officials like they did in the past and that's a very sad statement that you can't trust your bishops. we're always interested in your thoughts on current issues and right now we're asking you to vote on our web site on to talk coleman what to think of the catholic church's future after pope benedict this extend of leave his post and you can choose from the following fall for costs right now so this sudden resignation will cause the catholic church into

a successor crisis also the change will how the holy see move past barriers scandals also hold make no difference as the vatican is corrupt under any leadership and finally the final option of pope benedict the sixteenth will be forgotten as soon as a new pontiff takes over and let's not have a look at how you have been voting is so far so two thirds of ye believe that the resignation will make virtually no difference as the vatican will be corrupt under any leadership a little less than a quarter say that pope benedict this extent stepping down will soon be forgotten when his successor takes over also six percent of you see this as a way to the church to move past the scandals and allegations which have plagued the vatican recently and an equal number of years for cause the catholic church will have a difficult time selecting a new point to would be or every time and pope benedict so tell us what she is

saying that call. i am. going to need. a place in cairo i have been trying to rip our tox against the presidential palace with tear gas and water cannons after gates held stones into its grounds the violence followed in march by thousands of demonstrators hokies egypt's current leader of repression on tightening his grip on power the process took place on the second anniversary of the toppling of passing of bark was all and fist of all that the country lost for three decades and while egypt's public prosecutor orders the

rest of the muslim cleric for saying that leaders of the opposition should be condemned to death under islamic law because president morsi had asked all science journalists ramsey baroud who believes the country is becoming immensely apologised for the last two years egypt has not been allowed to have a strong central government that is key but being pushing the political process forward and thus the economy of the country the social cohesion and everything else as a result you have this is huge vacuum and this polarization and that is allowing egyptian society to be open for exploitation what has been happening is not exactly a popular new unified popular uproar against the addictive nature but rather a political polarization that has swept through the country for the last two years reaching the point of both sides justifying violence against one another and as it

is. do you have these this increasing number of casualties some of it indeed due to police brutality and group calling itself the blog has a much as a new force in this latest string of clashes and we had a chance to speak not a one of its members let's now have a listen to black block is an idea that came about as a reaction to the negligence of our peaceful demands and also as a reaction against the oppression of the interior ministry which received orders from the regime we stand against the oppressive and tyrant regime we call upon the interior ministry to deliver justice for those who have been killed and we will continue our demands until they are met our actions are in self-defense we are protecting ourselves but have never attacked anyone and we will always be present in egypt even after or demands are met however we will take on a different form of the aim behind our presence is to prevent injustice in any form no one listens to our demands and the proof is the number of people who are being

killed said they believe in the peaceful nature behind the intentions of these young men and blind. no not at all there is a possibility that in fact that they are outside those who are trying to rather fuel to the fire that is already. taking over egypt at least in the urban centers from cairo to boresight it's a phenomenon that i think resulted from the frustration disenfranchisement and just the general feeling of betrayal that the youth of egypt are feeling right now the issue is not the black bloc in particular but why would the even appeal to the youth of egypt in the first place unless there was that vacuum and there was that the need that was a created by the lack of sensuality and the lack of confidence in the political process in egypt with her coming from the government or from the so-called opposition. and i have for year in the dangerous demographics sound like

if you take the rabbit population train it would lead to civil war of the details and a couple of them. if you are nuclear watchdog is holding another round of talks with iran on its atomic program after failed negotiations last month they are i hopes this time to convey this to iran to open up its facilities suspected of making bombs they fences main focus is the parchin military bases sideway believes iran tested explosives relevant for the production of nuclear weapons so iran denies all western accusations of assisting its program is meant for power generation and medical research however increasingly surveying international sanctions are putting a squeeze on everyday life and making it harder for the rainiest to obtain basic medicine as aussies maya's the notion reports now from tehran a drug deficit in many cases leads to

a lethal outcome. not behind this smile lies pain and despair a bass and they run in with blood a cancer has just received his medicine but there is no guarantee he'll get it tomorrow a bass jokes about patients being patient but sadly has no choice. it's so hard to get treatment these days it's not that i don't get any at all but you have to wait a long time and if you get it that only means someone else has missed. the reason for the drug shortage sanctions imposed by western countries and the republic they're not directly targeting the pharmaceutical or medical factors but they have bangs his trade restrictions. unfortunately many foreign companies stop selling us drugs they're not allowed to have craig relations with iran and people predict price with their lives. iran's officials warn it may have an

impact far beyond its borders. if we have a disease appear demick and are unable to vaccinate the population it could spread easily to neighboring countries and affect to many even outside iraq. iran produces ninety six percent of its own medicine but the roma tearless behalf of them come from abroad more than fifty vital medicines have disappeared from the running pharmacist and international sanctions came in because the foreign in britain say a made from can no longer make their way into iran people with cancer and team ophelia wait often ended with bad news that the drug is not available their chances of survival are getting ever slimmer as sanctions heat patients instead of politicians officials estimate a total of six million iranian patients could be in danger because of the drug deficit in the van by local and international media reported on the first death

apparently caused by the shortage a fifteen year old boy who suffers from him ophelia couldn't get the medicine he desperately needed despite a frantic search by his family and he died in hospital on. the west try to do now they tried sanctions on the military sector they realized we actually started making progress there but they wanted to weaken destabilize the country and the government is their aim this is why they now target people so that people get angry and take to the streets protesting i think. and people indeed take to the streets this is a meeting of organ donors and some whose lives have been saved by transplants a process now complicated by the like of medicine. i thank god and the donor who return me to life i had heart problems and now his heart beats in my chest and i'm again why but the. is that many too many are still waiting surgery

became extremely expensive and the number of donors decreased will they have enough time. iranian doctors find themselves facing a very hard to to ation having to decide who will get the medicine and who will not in this direction they wrote an s.o.s. letter to the u.n. chief they're still waiting for an answer brief interruption archie from iran. and let's not go to our breaking news story on the main the u.n. security council diplomat says north korea has carried out a nuclear test this comes after south korea confirmed reports about four point nine magnitude manmade tremor coming from the communist neighbor so people have been threatening to carry out a nuclear test for the last few weeks despite being banned from any such activities by the you are so north korea is already under set of international sanctions tree had previously carried out two nuclear tests and is believed to possess

a small stockpile of nuclear weapons an emergency meeting of the two our security council is being convened later today and of course we'll bring you more on this story later. recent studies in britain suggest the country's most rapidly growing demographic is muslim a trend stirring trouble with the native brits has say there are governments to scared to phrase the problems caused by the immigration blue collar worker went to investigate. it's what britain is known for a vibrant multicultural society and it looks like u.k. babies are testimony to it in east london seventy seven percent of new mums were born in britain nicoletta is from romania two thousand seven hundred billion when my husband together so. i'm through him to sit cine recently moved here from sri lanka and it is. why do the more dear he.

has three children i was born in bangladesh did you keisha good living standard of living so you prefer to live in you kid overseas london is so ethnically diverse that white britons and now a minority here as well as in three other british cities between the years of two thousand and one and two thousand and eleven nearly four million immigrants came to the u.k. as part of an immigration boom under the former labor government at the time westminster said that britain needed working migrants to propel the economy this is tower hamlets in east london a third of the residents here a bangladeshi in fact they outnumber the white brits in this area by two thousand people so if you want to just say that the bad old just how quickly the number of indigenous brits has diminished over the past decade some put it down to

a case of white flight they say that caucasian brits are moving out of the country's most diverse areas there are people in this country racist. motives who simply don't want people because of the color of their skin or in the city but there are a lot of genuinely decent people who do have concerns and even the labor party has discovered recently that the vast majority of people live bragg's those who would naturally vote for the labor party have conserves and that's something that no government can ignore the leader of the opposition labor party recently admitted that his party got it wrong on immigration and to those lost out we were too quick to say i like it all and that the truth is the public were ahead of us in seeing some of the problems of migration because they were seeing them in

their own communities. and they were ahead of us in seeing the costs of migration as a whole poll after poll shows that the people living here are worried about the speed the size of the influx. for my opinion i don't think you. need more immigrants at the moment i do love immigrants already here critics say the government is too frightened to address what person will look like in fifty years time it's going to look like basically it's going to be a complete population change the indigenous population is shrinking anyway the biggest growth stenographic in in britain is it's growing ten times faster than any of the demographics and the problem with that is that the younger generation and the younger muslim generation is becoming increasingly radicalized and i personally think it's probably. the longest in the twenty twenty five twenty two possibly

civil war demographers say that if immigration continues on a similar scale the white british population throughout the country will become a minority off to twenty sixty six but with less than half of london is already describing themselves as white british some say that a quiet and irreversible revolution has already taken place in britain partly boyko azzi east london. and some other news and brave french unmonitored have regained control of that city of guile. militants launched a surprise ago rely on talk of water as one of the country's most populous cities authorities say three civilians were killed during the fighting france claims its militia campaign in the west african states is almost complete with the soldiers pushed out of the cities towards the desert area where they'll share in border.

at least fifteen hundred people took part in the so-called hunger march in the capital good as precious as a shot at slow goes against the rising cost of living of all employment prospects the march was joined by members of the opposition from various socialist party demanding wage raises and tax overheads. rebels in syria have pushed army units out of a k hydroelectric dam and was seen as a major subhadra for government forces led to a separate car bombings in the north of the country killed a total of twenty six people with bows being blamed on al qaeda linked militants despite the offer of negotiations with president assad the syrian opposition still insists he might he must leave his post at some point. at least twelve people most of them soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing and gun in the northern iraqi city of mosul most of the damage was caused one a car parked with explosives or as a rammed into

a military truck point the bombing is thought to be related to the ongoing sectarian conflict in the country with the sunni minority protesting against what they call unfair treatment from the shore led government barack obama is set to deliver his first state of the union address of his second term immigration gun control and the troubled economy while the trend the struggling middle class which obama claims to support is expecting the white house to usher in trying to consider long overdue and economist marks front wolf says the president risks losing support unless a find it delivers on his pledges. i think it's a bit pessimistic but largely accurate to call it the way i like to call it now which is the artist formerly known as the middle class so what's actually happened is a lot of what it's meant to be middle class in america has been access to affordable higher education college and university ability to retire with some security ability to own a home an ability to have health care and really all four of those pillars of the

mass middle class experience that defined post world war two america are either noble being nibbled away by economic change or in some can't take cases those legs have collapsed for tens of millions of american families their state of union comes right after the inaugural speech the second inauguration which was very light on the economy and came in for some significant criticism both from allies and usually as well as from foes of the president's own needs to address that we're already seeing a weak economy here so it will probably be revised up but it was actually technically negative g.d.p. in the fourth quarter of two thousand and twelve and there's a kind of feeling that at some point promises and good efforts by the president won't get him all that much with his base of supporters unless he can put some in real delivery of improved economic circumstances behind the rhetoric the promises and the successes that the obama administration has had in lots of areas other than the economy and obama is also expected to turn on america's foreign policy which is

becoming increasingly hearns free thanks to modern technology like on monday this comes as they hear us administration seems to justify the practice of killing terrorist suspects including american citizens was trying some crude on human rights new a stanley cohen says these targeted assassinations are actually met. we're not at war in pakistan we're not it war in yemen we're not at war in lebanon we're not in war in somalia if you want to clear war if you want to follow international law if you want to make your case you play by the rules the fact of the matter is no matter what you call this it's murder it's assassination it's illegal we're talking about murdering civilians we're talking about attacks by drones in countries that are our allies if there were persons there that we are want that are wanted american citizens yemeni citizens pakistani citizens somali citizens for crimes here you go to the countries extradite him you charge him you bring him to trial

the united states under international law cannot must not enough to no stretch of the imagination is justified in the use of drones in the execution and the extrajudicial assassination of not just americans of anyone overseas for years we have charged people we have extradited people we've been indicted people we've convicted many people charged with crimes of terrorism and it's worked before but this is an administration which is a namrud with clean murder with clean killing that's what president obama likes and now we're just trying to clean it up further. that will have on at the top of the hour with all the latest on the new developments in north korea and said john is for that but to right now report on how household rubbish has become a vital lifeline for some palestinian.